Kristin Hammargren’s master’s thesis turned into a one-woman show about the enduringly popular English author, Jane Austen.

Kristin Hammargren, who grew up spending her summers in Paradise Valley, will bring her original play, “Discovering Austen,” to Livingston next week. She will perform her show for three consecutive nights at the Shane Center, beginning Wednesday.

A word about our privacy and personal rights. It is a shame our well-heeled city officials can call attention to and have published a personal letter in a very large format with a picture about care of local property that taxes are paid on regularly.

It is not only poor journalism it is not newsworthy. Many good things are going on in our city that I never see in the headlines. Of course, often the paper knows nothing about good feeling news.

I just can’t believe that the so called non-native fish, rainbows, browns and brook trout are harming Yellowstone National Park’s eco-system? These fish were introduced to the Yellowstone eco-system over 125 years ago (1889) and so now after 125 years we need to get rid of them?

Does that mean the Park Service is going to start poisoning lakes in Yellowstone to bring it back to its original natural stage?

The Department of Environmental Quality and a Paradise Valley landowner are creating a new environmental assessment for a tire dump near Chicory Road.

Dana David, the DEQ lawyer who has been working on the case, said DEQ is still in the process of redoing the environmental assessment. David said he expects the assessment to be completed in the coming months.